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Harav Mayefsky was over 40 years a R”M in Yeshivah Tiferes Yerushalaim on the East Side of Manhattan, he also founded the Chevra Shas in the Konwitz Yeshive where he gave a daily Shiur.

The Konwittz Yeshiva was a part of the East Side Torah Center that was founded in year after the passing of the Rydve”z and named after him, which started out as a Talmud Torah, and then after the passing of his Son-in-law Rabbi Yosef Konwitz a Yeshiva was added after him.

Thank you for posting this. Rabbi Moshe Mayefsky was my great-grandfather as well. His son, Rabbi Yitzchok Mayefsky ZT”L (noted above as addressing the siyum at the Konowitz Yeshiva) was my grandfather. In addition to being a direct descendant of the Vilna Goan (as noted in Eliyahu’s Branches a:Chaim Freedman Sept. 1997) Reb Moshe was a close chaver of Reb Moshe Feinstein ZT”L

He was also my great-grandfather, and I remember him, although vaguely, as he died when I was only 4. My maternal grandmother, Betty Lipsky, nee Mayefsky, was his eldest daughter and second oldest child, having been one of the five children who left Palestine to avoid being drafted into the Ottoman Army during WWI. There were 4 more children born here. R. Mayefsky had been born in Vilna, and had come to Palestine with his father in the late 1880’s. He was married to Judith Hirschenson, whose family had been in Palestine for a number of decades. One of his great-grandsons is, in fact, named Moshe Mayefsky, as you can see above.

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